39 Actor Ben Affleck
32 NASCAR Driver Carl Edwards
21 Actress Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games)
1911 Proctor & Gamble Company introduced Crisco vegetable shortening.
1939 The Wizard of Oz premiered in Hollywood.
1967 Born on this day, MCA (Adam Yauch) The Beastie Boys
1969 Woodstock Festival was held on Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm in Bethel outside New York. Attended by over 400,000 people, the event featured, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Santana, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Canned Heat, Joan Baez, Melanie, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family Stone, Johnny Winter, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shanker, Country Joe and the Fish, Blood Sweat and Tears, Arlo Guthrie, and Joe Cocker. During the three days there were three deaths, two births and four miscarriages. Joni Mitchell was booked to appear but had to pull out due to being booked for a TV show, wrote the song 'Woodstock.'
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